[Carmen Del toro]

Thank you Job 😉 I will proceed to pan the tracks and make them stereo as suggested that workflow seems best.

Thanks again to all.
Best
CDT

-CDT
Media wrangler

[Carmen Del toro]

I like your way of thinking Michael
Idid forget to mention I use meta cheater to make their ALE.

…I dont believe that baby jesus was born on the 25th of december….. but I believe in Time Code, lol.
If it was not for me having the TC match between the XDCAM Footage and AVID media I would be royally screwed, Thank you metacheater 🙂

I would suggest to the editor your freetrial work around…

still why only one channel of mono instead of A1 mono and A2 mono that are in the XDCAM qt… is it a LE codecs version as oposed to the PE avid codec package, of does any one think my qt went bonkers?
of do I I wish the audio configuration to pass trough the dnxhd wrapped quicktime. is this even possible?

-CDT
Media wrangler

[Carmen Del toro]

Thank you michael upgrade would be a dream, but upgrading in the middle of this… and I would not recommend that myself for any project. The editor chosen has choosen avid and working out of their spare time from what ever rudementary version they have…

I am just the person who makes the files for the editor cause well, i guess they don’t know how to work on their avid system with this camera… with out an upgrade, i guess.

Thanks for suggestion the new west version of media composer…

I am still wonder about the strange facto of the audio being re-encoded to just one track, when its natively two mono channels?

-CDT
Media wrangler

[Carmen Del toro]

Thank You very much shane, you my second peep to say, do it to your internal SATA you’ll be fine.

and in my quest for answers I found this helpful comparison test, it’s a bit dated (2 years ago) but I found the pro res comparison interesting.

here is the link
https://www.fini.tv/blog/finishing_line_files/proresSD%20test%20results.php

Best
CDT

-CDT
Media wrangler

[Carmen Del toro]

Shane I need you expert advice. So this morning i ran some test using the parameters that you told me I should use, yes they work great, the computer , card, and deck seem to be talking to each other seamlessly. But there is a a BUT.

first I layed off to the dvcpro tape from the SATA raid and it would about the edit to tape, so I closed all my non necessary open sequences, turned off unlimited real time, closed any other programs and still it would give me videos hits, or the clasic gettting stuck on one frame and recording it for like 3 seconds before aborting the edit to tape.

Second I exported a full rez quicktime movie here are the specs
DVCPRO HD 729p60, 960 x 720, fps 29.97, TRT 18 minutes, 8.48 GB size.
I localized the movie on the second internal HD, brought that movie into a new FCP project
opened a new sequence with a sequence preset of DVCPRO HD 720P30. In this case when editing to tape it would run fine trough the outputting process did not quit, but I did get so see the audio dropping out on the deck, and video hits on the image.

I also noticed that the TC on the deck, once I stopped it, was a full 4 frames behind the TC in the sequence that would match that edit? I know that off setting happens but is this really common?

I also realized that the power PC G5 has only two gigs of ram, there are lots of electronics running in this room, and i was wondering if that lack of poower and RAM had to do with this un sucessful attempt to lay off to tape out DVCPRO HD sequence.

I will keep on running test and see if something happens.
Guidance? please.

Thank You for your time.

-CDT
Media wrangler

[Carmen Del toro]

Thanks for the Tips Shane, I really appreciate it.

-CDT
Media wrangler